I have already written about the baremetal servers at packet.net in September 2017, testing them with LXD. This post is an update were I try out their new AMD EPYC baremetal servers. This post is the first of a series of posts about the AMD EPYC baremetal servers. Specifically, A closer look at AMD EPYC …
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Sep 13 2018
How to run Julia on Jupyter in a LXD container
Julia is a computer language well-suited for scientists, engineers and students. I wrote the following introduction a couple of days ago. In this post we are going to see how to use Julia in the Jupyter interactive environment. This means that you run Julia commands in your browser and get the output in your browser. …
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Jul 10 2018
A closer look at Minimal Ubuntu for LXD
Here is the announcement of the release of Minimal Ubuntu for public clouds and Docker Hub. Minimal Ubuntu is similar to Ubuntu Server, but with much less packages. Among the packages that are gone, it’s documentation packages, locales and other user-oriented packages. Obviously, you can install whichever packages you need. That is, for any package …
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Jun 25 2018
How to easily run graphics-accelerated GUI apps in LXD containers on your Ubuntu desktop
UPDATE June 2020: See newer post at https://blog.simos.info/running-x11-software-in-lxd-containers/ for simplified instructions. They require a recent LXD (version 4.0 or newer), and snap packages work. Note: This post is about LXD containers. These are system containers, which means they are similar to Docker but behave somewhat like virtual machines. When you start a LXD (lex-dee) container, …
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Jun 14 2018
How to use LXD container hostnames on the host in Ubuntu 18.04
Update: 12 Oct 2018 – The systemd service file and the LXD lxdbr0 configuration have been updated according to the comment by mDfRgmd. Please check again and verify that you are using the updated version. If you have two LXD containers, mycontainer1 and mycontainer2, then you can reference each other with those handy *.lxd hostnames …
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